Friday, January 7, 2011

Alcohol is not sounding very good for some people after New Year's Eve, but cake in the shape of alcohol, YUM! I could lie and tell you that it's supposed to look like one of those new single serve soda cans, but honestly I just made the cake too chubby. I was focused on how many I needed to feed and not the proportions (duh!)

For you guys looking to do cakes professionally, please know now that this is a very hard thing to balance. You can't make a 3-D carved helmet cake to feed 10 people and you have to learn to tell people the facts. We don't have a shrink ray (maybe next Christmas)! I used 5 8" round cake layers for this cake. The blue is all buttercream as are the bubbles. The spilled beer is piping gel with a little copper color.

The logo was an edible image that I found, transferred into PowerPoint and enlarged it to the size I needed. The birthday letters, plaque the image is mounted on and lid are all Fondarific. Honestly, this was a pretty easy cake and I don't say that much, so go get to making one!

This is fantastic. I love, love the buttercream. It's so smooth and the colour is .. . .so blue. Yay you on a brilliant cake. I also get asked to make a carved cake for 10 people quite a bit and the customers/clients/kids swimming lessons don't seem to appreciate that you have to sometimes bake big to carve down. Dead impressed. I'm in the process of doing a beer can and it's breaking my heart.